Wooo! Long time, no update LJ~...I am a terrible blogger XDD But! I have totes have a legit excuse. I graduated college in the middle of May and pretty much right after that, my friends and I were in full on convention prep mode for this year's AnimeNEXT~ <3 kabukiroad, pastry_doodle , cakewaltz , and I went all out with our cosplays this year and did characters from two of the most elaborately dressed shows ever; Kuroshitsuji and Umineko no Naku Koro ni.

LOL I know you guys are probably only clicking this in the hopes of finding pictures, but I'm still sorting through them. This post shall just be my thoughts on the con this year.

I thought ANEXT 2010 was a lot more fun than last year. They seemed a bit more organized this year, but I was disappointed in a few things.

1. Lack of Panels: The lacking of interesting panels. Apparently the con itself was understaffed and they couldn't hold as many panels going on at the same time? This resulted in everyone going into the few panels that actually were happening, thus causing those panels to fill up really quickly. I couldn't get into Little Kuriboh's panel because of it. Not that I mind really. I would have liked to go, but I didn't mind missing it.

2. Lines: Another issue I had was with lines. I'd really like to know who thought it was a good idea to have everyone line up for the Masquerade in the SCORCHING HEAT. WTF guys. :| It wasn't even an actual line, but more like a bunch of people piled out in the grass outside the convention center. Also, I thought a lot of the staff was quite rude D:

3. Small Dealer Room: There wasn't that much in the dealer room this year. I felt a lot of them were selling the same stuff as each other.

That's all I really had issues with pretty much. The awesome and entertaining Masquerade made up for the suckish programming with panels. It even made up for the suckish Masquerade last year~ A lot of the skits were really funny XD

I didn't go to any panels at this year's con, which is a little unusual, but I didn't really mind it. The Kuroshitsuji cosplay gathering completely made up for that. Me and my group met a lot of awesome people and made a lot of new friends ^^ Overall, this con was super fun and I had a great time. Besides the Kuroshitsuji gathering, my main highlight is being Grell Sutcliffe and being in character all day. I pretty much went "SEBAS-CHAAAAAAN~~~~!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥" to every Sebastian cosplayer I saw. The look of approaching doom on their faces were really amusing to see as I pranced over. One Sebastian even hid behind her Ciel XDDD Also, me and my friends were stopped SO. MANY. TIMES for pictures~ I love it. I feel like such a celebrity at conventions XD

FFFF THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POSTED ON THURSDAY. But then again, it WAS New Year's Eve, so I suppose that's a valid excuse. XD;;;;

Day 12: Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE EVERYONE. LOL even though it's already the New Year. XDD But this is most likely what I would have posted on Thursday anyway. I really like this song and like listening to it during the holiday season when all the Christmas music is on the radio. I suppose...since it IS the New Year, I'll post my list of resolutions for 2010.

HALLOWEEN TOTES COUNTS AS RECENT. Plus, this is an opportunity to show you guys my costume. I was Alice from American McGee's ALICE, the KICKASS, AWESOME computer game which I still haven't finished 8D I really want to learn how to make my own cosplay, so I figured, why not start with something kinda easy?...It wasn't XDD; I had TONS of help from my friend Chris-chan, who I'm with in this picture. She didn't make her costume, but it looks awesome x3 I'm extremely grateful to her for helping me with this outfit. It looks pretty good for a first attempt at making clothes I think. I've still got tons to learn though. XD;

Christmas 1997. According to the math, this was taken 12 years ago, which makes me 9 years old in this picture. Once again, I'm on the new computer so there's nothing on here. I had to take this from my uncle's facebook. He's the guy in this picture, holding his two daughters with my mom. Aaand, I shall now explain the purpose for the quote chosen as the title for this entry. It is originally a quote intended for twins. LOL no one in this picture has a twin. XD But when we were younger, my parents always put my younger sister and I in matching outfits, which made a lot of strangers think we were twins. It actually still happens now if my sister and I are walking together in a store or something. Some guy in Home Depot actually stopped us to ask if we were twins, even though we weren't wearing matching outfits. The two little girls (my cousins) aren't twins either, but they were in the same boat as us. XDD;

FFFF I'm terrible at keeping up with this meme DD8 Here's the post that was supposed to be posted yesterday XP

Day 09: A Photo You Took

MAGNET CAT LOVES YOU. I don't take too many pictures and I originally wanted to find something better than this, but I'm using a brand new computer with basically nothing on it. Any pictures I've actually taken are on my laptop, which takes forever to load XP So I was lucky enough to find this picture that I took over my Florida vacation last summer. XDD Magnet Cat is comprised of my little cousins' Leap Frog alphabet magnets. XDD;

Not very many things make me angry or sad actually, but any pictures of him make me feel sad now. Well, not entirely. He's a beautiful person, inside and out and he's lovely to look at. But it makes me sad to think that he's not here anymore, and even sadder that I never got to see him in person, despite having the perfect chance to. This is, by far, one of the prettiest pictures I've seen of him ;~;

Rest in Peace, dearest Jasmine. I hope you're happy where ever you are now.